• Learn about cancer
  • What is cancer?
  • What causes cancer?
  • Detecting cancer
    • Imaging techniques
    • Endoscopy
    • Tissue samples
    • Molecular diagnostics
  • Cancer treatment
• Cancers at a glance
• Research highlights
• About cancer research
• Understanding 'risk'
• Our history and achievements

Detecting cancer

Cancer is easier to treat and cure if the disease is diagnosed early. Because of this, a huge amount of effort has gone into developing methods to detect early signs of the disease. This section deals with the methods that doctors use to find out if someone has cancer.

Click on the link below to find out more about the different ways of detecting cancers.

• Imaging techniques
• Endoscopy
• Tissue samples
• Molecular diagnostics